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Sarah Milledge Nelson

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#862

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#1172

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#442

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Archeology

#247

World Rank

#375

Historical Rank

#59

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Sarah Milledge Nelson's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Sarah Milledge Nelson was an American archaeologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita from the Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, United States. Nelson was raised in Florida and obtained her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1973. Nelson was known for her research on the archaeology of East Asia, in particular Korea and northeast China. She also conducted extensive research in the archaeology of gender and Hongshan culture. She was also well known for her work on gender and archaeology and for her fiction writing about ancient East Asia. Nelson died at the age of 88 in 2020 after a long illness.

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Sarah Milledge Nelson's Published Works

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The archaeology of Korea (1994) (116)
Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China [and Comments and Reply] (1994) (72)
Handbook of gender in archaeology (2006) (68)
Observations on the Lower Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia [and Comments and Reply] (1983) (67)
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches (2006) (55)
Feasting the Ancestors in Early China (2003) (54)
The Archaeology of Northeast China : Beyond the Great Wall (1995) (39)
Diversity of the Upper Paleolithic “Venus Figurines and Archeological Mythology” (2008) (37)
Equity issues for women in archeology (1998) (35)
In pursuit of gender : worldwide archaeological approaches (2001) (35)
Continuity and Local Evolution in the Neolithic of South China: A Non-Nuclear Approach [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (30)
Nationalism, politics, and the practice of archaeology: The politics of ethnicity in prehistoric Korea (1996) (24)
Archaeology of the Russian Far East: Essays in Stone Age Prehistory (2013) (21)
The World of Soy (2010) (15)
Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology of textile production (2020) (14)
Women in Antiquity: Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Archaeology (2007) (14)
Ritualized Pigs and the Origins of Complex Society: Hypotheses Regarding the Hongshan Culture (1995) (11)
The Subsistence Base of Middle Han Sites of the Chulmun Period (1975) (11)
Identity and subsistence : gender strategies for archaeology (2007) (10)
Powers of Observation: Alternative Views in Archeology (1990) (9)
Relationship between Korea and Japan in early period : Paekche and Yamato Wa (1989) (9)
Shamanism and the Origin of States: Spirit, Power, and Gender in East Asia (2008) (8)
Studies in Bella Bella Prehistory (1978) (8)
The Effects of Rice Agriculture on Prehistoric Korea (1982) (7)
The Neolithic of northeastern China and Korea (1990) (7)
Archaeology in the Two Koreas (2008) (7)
Denver: An Archaeological History (2001) (6)
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World (2006) (6)
Net Sinkers or Weft Weights? (1976) (6)
Integrating the Diversity of 21st Century Anthropology: The life and Intellectual Legacies of Susan Kent (2006) (5)
Shamans, Queens, and Figurines (2014) (4)
Shamanism in Korea (2019) (3)
Mumun, Proto-Three Kingdoms, and Three Kingdoms in Korea (2017) (3)
Gyeongju: The Capital of Golden Silla (2017) (3)
Windows on the Japanese past: Studies in Archaeology and Prehistory (1991) (3)
An Interactive Computer Graphic Technique for Identifying Occupation Surfaces in Deep Archaeological Sites (1987) (3)
Korean Interpretations of Korean Archaeology (1990) (3)
Han River Chulmuntogi: A study of early neolithic Korea (1975) (3)
Gender and Religion in Archaeology (2011) (2)
Spirit Bird Journey (2009) (2)
Leadership Strategies, Economic Activity, and Interregional Interaction: Social Complexity in Northeast China. Gideon Shelach. 1999. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, xv + 280 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-306-46090-4. (2001) (2)
The Talking Potsherds: Archaeologists as Novelists (2015) (2)
Pigs in the Hongshan culture (1998) (2)
The Origins of Rice Agriculture in Korea—A Symposium: Introduction (1982) (2)
Landscapes and Power in Early China: the Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045–771bc, by Li Feng, 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN-13 978-052-185-272-2; ISBN-10 052-185-272-2 hardback £55 & US$106; xviii+405 pp., 65 figs., 1 table (2008) (1)
[TRANSITIONS TO AGRICULTURE IN THE EASTERN OLD WORLD] Evidence for early agriculture in Korea (1991) (1)
Hongshan: an early complex society in Northeast China (1997) (1)
Megalithic Monuments in Korea (2014) (1)
Remembrance: Susan Kent (2003) (1)
Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica (1997) (1)
Gender Archaeology. Marie Louise Stig Sorenson (2001) (1)
Susan Kent: A Life and a Legacy (2008) (1)
Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity by Hyung Il Pai (review) (2015) (1)
Susan Kent (1952–2003) (2004) (1)
Relationships between Silla 新羅 and Yamato 大和 (2015) (0)
Butler Wash Project Excavation of Sa4989 (1996) (0)
Monuments in Korea (2008) (0)
Susan Kent (1952-2003) - Obituary (2004) (0)
Social complexity, gender and (2015) (0)
Shamans in the East Asian Neolithic (2019) (0)
On Kim and Choe: Comments (1982) (0)
CHARLES HIGHAM. The Bronze Age of southeast Asia. xvi+381 pages, 149 illustrations, 1 table. 1996. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-49660-8 hardback £55 & 0-521-56505-7 paperback £19.95. (1997) (0)
Retying the Knots (2019) (0)
Settlement Patterns in the Chifeng Region by the Chifeng International Collaborative Archaeological Research Project (review) (2014) (0)
Production : Ceramics, bronze, iron, and gold (2017) (0)
Power, Leadership, and Gender (2019) (0)
The social structure of Korean Neolithic sites (1989) (0)
Archaeoastronomical Evidence for Wuism at the Hongshan Site of Niuheliang (2006) (0)
Paleoindian Archaeology: a Hemispheric Perspective, edited by Juliet E. Morrow & Cristóbal Gnecco, 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; ISBN-13 978-08130-3014-2; ISBN-10 0-8130-3014-5 hardback £41 & US$65; xv+263 pp., 73 figs., 10 tables (2008) (0)
Orientation to Shamanism and the Origin of States (2019) (0)
Shamanism in Early Chinese States (2019) (0)
Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia [Book Review] (2010) (0)
Gender and Archaeology in Coastal East Asia (2014) (0)
Unwritten History: The Archaeology of the Denver Basin (96-01-005) (1996) (0)
Butler Wash Archaeological Project Survey-1976 (1976) (0)
ASIA, NORTHEAST, EARLY STATES AND CIVILIZATIONS (2008) (0)
What is a Shaman? (2019) (0)
Comments: On Kim and Nelson; On Kim and Choe (1982) (0)
On Warp Weight: A Correction (1977) (0)
Aegean Mercenaries in Light of the Bible: Clash of Cultures in the Story of David and Goliath by Simona Rodan (review) (2017) (0)
Butler Wash Archaeological Project Survey Report - 1976 (1976) (0)
The Hongshan papers : collected studies on the archaeology of Northern China (2014) (0)
Shamanism in the Japanese Islands (2019) (0)
Butler Wash Archaeological Project, 1976, Excavation Report (1977) (0)
New American Archaeological Methods, with some Applications to Korean Prehistory (1983) (0)
Genghis Khan: Treasures from Inner Mongolia. Adam Kessler, guest Curator (1995) (0)
Shamanism and the Origin of States (2019) (0)
Butler Wash Survey Report 1976 (1996) (0)
Adornments of Golden Silla (2019) (0)
Quest for Queens (2000) (0)
Feminist Theory, Leadership, and the Spirits of States in East Asia (2011) (0)
Mumunt’ogi and Megalithic Monuments: A Reconsideration of the Dating (2008) (0)
REVIEW: THREE PERSPECTIVES ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT CHINA (2016) (0)
The Prehistory of Korea (review) (1980) (0)
Rulership in Silla (2017) (0)
The Bronze Age in Korea (review) (2011) (0)
Religions in Gyeongju (2017) (0)
Abstracts (2023) (0)
Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization (review) (2001) (0)
Landscapes, Legends, and Skyscapes (2019) (0)
Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia by Denis Byrne (2010) (0)
Creekside: An Archaeological Novel. Kelli Carmean. 2010. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 240 pp. $27.50 (paper), ISBN 13 978-0817356613. (2011) (0)
Book Reviews (1981) (0)
Novel Way to Teach Archaeology (2000) (0)
Women Archeologists in Asia/Pacific: An Update (2008) (0)
Excavating Asian History: Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology and History. Norman Yoffee and Bradley L. Crowell, editors. 2006. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, vi + 352 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN-13 9-780-81652-418-1. (2008) (0)
Silk roads and trade routes (2017) (0)
Ranking and sumptuary rules (2017) (0)

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